I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.

Art should be created for life, not for the museum.

I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel that has the identity of that place - Claridge's in London, the Danieli or Cipriani in Venice. In New York, I stay at the Mercer Hotel; it is so much in the character of SoHo.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.